FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INS CO v. NW TITLE INS AGENCY

No. 17-4086.

906 F.3d 884 (2018)

FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY; First American Title Company, LLC., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. NORTHWEST TITLE INSURANCE AGENCY; Michael Smith; Kristi Carrell, Defendants-Appellants, and Jeff Williams, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED October 9, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Anne Q. Wood ( Stephen Q. Wood , with her on the briefs), Wood Balmforth LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Defendants-Appellants.

Matthew L. Lalli ( Mark O. Morris , Bret R. Evans , and W. Danny Green , with him on the brief), Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P., Salt Lake City, Utah, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, LUCERO, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.


This is an appeal from a large jury award based on breaches of contractual and fiduciary duties by employees of a title company who left to form a competing company and encouraged former coemployees to join them. The plaintiffs below were two wholly owned subsidiaries of First American Financial Corporation: First American...

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